Fate/Grand Order

All right, we have communication! I hope you are okay, Fujimaru!

We just confirmed the collapse of the throne room! The King of MagesI mean, Goetia is gone, too!

But there's no time to savor the victory. The temple is crumbling and the band of light is unstable, too!

The power binding all the magical energy together must have vanished with Goetia's defeat.

At this rate, it'll lose its ring form and revert to its natural state: as mana that will diffuse into the atmosphere.

If that happens, there won't be anything left of the Singularity.

It'll explode like a supernova! Get back to Chaldea before that happens!

Chaldea is safe. I've taken care of it.

If you can use the dimensional fissure in the throne room to make it back to the holy gate, I can Rayshift you.

But if the floor crumbles, you won't be able to get to the holy gate. Whether the band of light's diffusion or the temple's collapse comes first is... well...

Anyway, hurry back. We can talk details after that.

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Fou, fouuu!

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The temple is crumbling... Fujimaru did it.

Good work, everyone.

Thanks to you, we defeated the Demon God Pillars, while Fujimaru made it to the throne ro...

...Everyone's disappearing...

...Thank you. You didn't let up even for a moment. You fought until all your strength was gone.

My words won't reach you now, but I am so grateful for your help. And now, we survivors can return to our own grand thrones.

Obviously. Only the Beasts possess the power to manifest independently.

Any true Heroic Spirit would begin crumbling the moment we appeared in this space.

Even so, we did keep the Demon God Pillars in check.

We may have been a ragtag group of Heroic Spirits, but this was truly a battle for the ages.

I see you're starting to fade away, King of Heroes. Are you not going to stay to see how it ends?

No. From here on out, what happens should be for humans alone. Neither you nor I are meant to be part of it.

Goetia, the Beast who knew no love. An Evil of Humanity fueled only by his own grief. One who sought nothingness.

...It's ironic. The Evils of Humanity themselves represent a love for the human race.

All that destruction, it wasn't because Goetia hated humans, or harbored any malice toward them. Malice is temporary. It fades so very easily.

That's why...the threat to humanity truly rises from the very wish to protect it.

Wishing for a better future threatens the current peace.

Hmph. Thinking of it that way, I suppose the Beast managed to shake itself free from that cycle.

To be honest, I don't really know a great deal about those Beasts, since I do not possess the Grand title.

But, it's said they manifested like a chain reaction.

In a world where one of the Evils of Humanity reared its head, other calamities, culminating in "The Final Evil," will appear.

Since Beast I has manifested, I'm sure the final one, Beast VII, is somewhere in this world too.

Whatever shape the Beasts of Calamity take, it falls to humanity to combat them.

I don't care how it turns out. But you should watch over them, and help them as much as you can.

Now get moving. Unless you want to stay here and sacrifice yourself to that great fool, King Solomon.

...You're right. All we can really do is lend them our strength.

Finishing one battle and moving on to the next is what the humans of that age do.

Well done, Fujimaru. The gathering of so many Heroic Spirits here was your doing.

Looks like the temple is crumbling even faster than the band of light is dispersing...! Just a little more! Run, run!

The floor in that area is starting to collapse, too! It could give way any second now!

The Rayshift point is five hundred meters ahead! Hurry!!!

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...!? An...energy surge...!? Did he just manifest? No, he was waiting there...!?

Be careful, Fujimaru! The Spirit Origin right in front of you is

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...That's right. We finally understand each other, Fujimaru.

I'm not going to let you leave alive. You will die here with me.

...My dream is in ruins.

Everything I did here in this temple, all the time I spent planning... All of it, for naught.

...That's right. I lost.

The band of light is vanishing. The Incineration of Humanity will be reversed. The moment King Solomon ceased to exist, all of my work was undone.

I, too, am no longer the 72 Demon God Pillars. This is all that remains.

No matter what I do here, now, I cannot redeem my failure. Killing you will change nothing.

...This is a meaningless battle. This would have been an unthinkable choice for me before.

But...

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...Yes, indeed. I also have my pride. Or rather, I do now.

I now understand human mentality. Now that I have a limited, mortal life, I finally understand.

...It's been a long journey. So very long... I have dwelt here for 3,000 years.

I'm going to stop you in order to protect the one thing I cannot possibly relinquish. And you're going to stop me so you can return home alive.

...I have said what I needed to say.

So, let us begin, and bring an end to this quest.

O Master who overcame seven Singularities in seven worlds... Your Grand Order is all about the Incineration of Humanity.

My name is Goetia. I am the one who used humanity to destroy humanity. The one who strove for what lay beyond.

A climax with no one around. ...I strove for an empty wish that none truly wanted.

I am born now and I shall perish now.

This battle may be without resolution or reward, but I shall put my entire being on the line to crush you.

...My sworn enemy. My hatred. My destiny.

I want you to witness this. This brief moment is now my story.

This brief but precious time has given the creature called Goetia true life.

Huh, who would have known?

...Tragically short, and yet, strangely fascinating... So, this is what human life is...

All right, the video is back up! Tell me what happened later!

Hurry up, Fujimaru! Chaldea is starting to move away from Solomon's Temple of Time!

Get to the Rayshift point now! I'll hold till the last possible second!

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There's still a chance! Reach out! Senpai, grab my hand!

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